“INVENTION OF WRITING
WRITTEN LANGUAGES”
The first signs, pictograms, or petroglyphs represented each idea, object, or event with a unified word, combining them based on their meanings. Over time, these signs became more reduced and simplified. Then, they evolved to represent sounds or phonetic units, which further reduced the number of signs. Later on, the representation of phonemes formed words. In Egypt, hieroglyphic signs served as the source of the consonant alphabet, giving rise to many languages.
Writing enabled communication between people across great distances, both in space and time. Through translation, it even reached other peoples and cultures.”